Word: beechnut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coincidence the cousin and uncle arrived on the same train. He was waiting for them, a cigar in one pocket, a package of Beechnut in another, and a determination in his mind to collect within short order the price of two tickets. He saw them descend from different Pullmans at the same moment. Rushing to the uncle on the right, he cried, "Wait a minute, Cousin Arthur is approaching on my left!" His uncle-by-marriage looked startled and gave the porter only a quarter instead of fifty cents. Already the Vagabond had raced one Pullman length and accosted...
Amelia Earhart thus made national headlines as the first woman to cross the Atlantic, with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon in the Friendship. After that she settled down to learn flying as well as she could. She flew for fun, flew for publicity. While flying for Beechnut Products she made headlines by cracking up an autogiro, nearest thing to a foolproof aircraft. But she learned to fly so well that she became the world's No. i woman flyer, rolled up an impressive list of "firsts...
...Hosiery, Musterole, Zemo, Bost Toothpaste); N. W. Ayer (Deerfoot Sausage, Eno's Salts, Henry Ford) ; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (Atwater Kent, Armstrong Cork, Gold Dust, General Electric); Ruthrauff & Ryan (Campbell Soup, Cocomalt, Gillette, Rinso); Stack-Goble (Swift, Freeman Shoes, Bromo-Quinine) ; Newell-Emmett (Sunshine Biscuits, Chesterfields) ; McCann-Erickson (BeechNut Packing, National Biscuit, Vaseline...
...Chandu (Beechnut). A blood curdler. Chandu sends explanations of his magic tricks to children who write...
...Started last March, the Chandu radio pro gram (Beechnut Coffee) is top-ranking in popularity, getting 8,000 letters a week. Chandu. played by Gayne Whitman in the Freeman-Lang studio in Hollywood, is sent over the air by electrical transcription...